Achhe din has arrived, says Amit Shah
BJP president Amit Shah has said the “achhe din” promised by the party has arrived as the overwhelming mandate given to it by people in many states in Assembly polls since 2014 showed they were impressed by the accelerated development of the country.
“Achhe din has arrived and many people can feel it. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won all elections since 2014, when it came to power at the Centre. People in many states have given it overwhelming mandate in Assembly polls,” Shah told a press conference here on the second day of his three-day visit to Odisha.
Stating that nothing can be a bigger certificate than people’s mandate, the BJP chief said the party’s victory in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Manipur, Assam, Haryana, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra had proved that people were experiencing “achhe din.”
“Achhe din” was also experienced by the crores of beneficiaries of free LPG under Ujjwala scheme, toilets, Mudra bank, one rank one pension (OROP) scheme and rural electrification drive.
“The seventh pay commission also benefitted many.
People realised that the achhe din has arrived as the effectively-controlled inflation has given them considerable relief", he said.
Referring to black money, Shah said that the Modi government has tightened the noose around those holding unaccounted money and wealth by deregistering over two lakh shell companies, while more than 5,100,000 new tax payers have been included in the net.
Concrete steps have been taken to curb generation and transfer of black money, he said, adding necessary measures have been taken with regard to treaties with countries like Mauritius, Cyprus and Singapore.
He said the BJP-led NDA government had transformed the country and put the economy on the right track, he said, adding three years ago during the UPA rule the inflation had sky-rocketed and development nosedived.
To a query, Shah said demonetisation did not have any negative impact on the economic growth rate and the decline was only a temporary impact after introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) as traders were busy disposing old stocks.
India now has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, he said, adding “In some quarters our growth has been higher than that recorded by China.” Describing the NDA government as a government for Dalits, tribals, poor, women, unemployed and the backward, the BJP chief said the Centre had taken various steps for the benefit of the downtrodden.